Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 2 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 3 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 4 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 5 | ‘ Did I tell you I 'ad to run away in the end because he got to fancy me too much ? |
| 6 | I mean turn out in the er in , in in er er European elections was er in nineteen eighty four it was thirty two percent and in nineteen er eighty nine , thirty seven percent . |
| 7 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |
| 8 | I intend to travel extensively during the summer and I may not have the pleasure of meeting you . |
| 9 | Rod , working on his own life story with a ghost writer , has promised : ‘ I am going to leave no stone unturned — I intend to delve deeply into the numerous stains I have left on the tapestry of life . ’ |
| 10 | Well , a bit I intend carrying on as the parliamentary candidate and somebody had obviously asked Dave why it is something has nothing whatsoever to do with the constituency . |
| 11 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 12 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |
| 13 | I planned to stay there for the summer , and then learn how to be a better actress . |
| 14 | The abbeys and priories I passed slumbered gently in the lee of fresh green hills , unaware of the destruction about to crawl from the hellish pit of Henry 's lusts . |
| 15 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 16 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 17 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 18 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 19 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
| 20 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 21 | I got dressed quickly in the bitter cold of the room , and washed when I could . |
| 22 | ‘ I got hauled up before the chief psychiatrist because of the champagne that was flowing . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 27 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 28 | I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying . |
| 29 | ROBBIE When it all happened , when I got thrown out of the school , he said he 'd never wanted to adopt anyway , it was my mother 's idea , not his , it was to make her happy . |
| 30 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |